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Chesterton, G K. The Incredulity of Father Brown. London: Cassell, 1926, 1926.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hard Cover. G, Wear,Browning, FFEP Missing/NO DUST JACKET. 1st Edition. Crime short stories. Expanded condition report/scan on request.
Seller: Klanhorn, Queanbeyan, NSW, Australia
CHESTERTON, G. K.. THE INCREDULITY OF FATHER BROWN. Cassell and Company, Ltd, London, 1926.
Price: US$22.50 + shipping
Description: pp. 296.,Small 8vo,Bound in original black cloth ruled and lettered in red,A collection of eight short stories, the third title in the 'Father Brown' series. 7,500 copies were printed. See Sullivan, 'G. K. Chesterton: A Bibliography', #63. Rear board sl. bowed. Corners a bit rounded. Cloth shows light scuffing and soiling. Bottom edge of text block a bit spotted. Endpapers clean and tight - no former owner's markings. Binding a bit sprung, but nothing loose. In good plus condition.
Seller: BISON BOOKS - ABAC/ILAB, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Price: US$32.21 + shipping
Description: VG with faded spine. No dustwrapper.
Seller: Black Cat Bookshop P.B.F.A, Leicester, United Kingdom
Price: US$51.47 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: True first British printing. No jacket. Black boards with (faded) red lettering to spine and red lettering and design to front are good with a little pushing/bumping to corners, the odd small mark, the odd small bump/rub to edges and a little wear (pushing/rubbing/bumping/little fraying to the cloth) to head/tail of spine. Little spine lean. Pages are generally clean and the binding is tight. Rough cut page edges and bottoms. Pages are tanned. Previous owner's initials and signature in large letters in pen to front end-paper. Odd small mark/mild foxing to page edges, tops and bottoms. Inside boards/end-papers/first and last few pages tanned with (quite) severe foxing. Occasional small marks/scattered foxing to pages. No other faults. All books described honestly and accurately. Paypal accepted.
Seller: PW Books, Andover, HANTS, United Kingdom
Price: US$57.91 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: True first British printing. No jacket. Black boards with (faded) red lettering to spine and red lettering to front are very good with a little pushing/bumping to corners, crease to spine (book has been read), a few marks, minor patchy fading, the odd small bump/rub to edges and a little wear (pushing/rubbing/little fraying to the cloth) to head/tail of spine. Minor spine lean. Pages are generally clean and the binding is tight. Rough cut page bottoms. Pages are tanned. Previous owner's name in pencil to front end-paper. Small 'The Times Book Club' sticker inside back board. Odd small mark/minor foxing to page edges, tops and bottoms. Occasional small marks/scattered foxing to pages. No other faults. All books described honestly and accurately. Paypal accepted.
Seller: PW Books, Andover, HANTS, United Kingdom
Price: US$70.85 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Black cloth, titled and decorated in red. Lacks dust-jacket, some foxing. A good copy.
Seller: Collinge & Clark, London, United Kingdom
Chesterton, G.K.. The Incredulity of Father Brown. Cassell, London, 1926.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Sullivan #63. 7,500 copies. Original black cloth lettered in red. Light page-edge foxing but a clean, bright copy.
Seller: Dr Jeremy Parrott, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$149.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Original black cloth boards, with red titling on front and spine and red borders on front. Book is tight, square and totally clean inside. This is a collection of eight stories, and is the third in the "Father Brown" series. According to Sullivan, only 7,500 copies were printed. Chesterton has been known as the "prince of paradox". An English poet, philosopher and lay theologian Gilbert Keith Chesterton became well known for his fictional priest-detective Father Brown, and for his reasoned apologetics. The fictional Roman Catholic priest and amateur detective Father Brown, a jovial priest, often playing the part of Sherlock Holmes the keen-witted detective. He was featured in multiple short stories published between 1910 and 1936. It's been written that the character was based on Monsignor John O'Connor, a parish priest near Chesterton's childhood home and responsible for his conversation to Catholicism. Book is now protected in an archival quality Brodart book jacket cover.
Seller: Barberry Lane Booksellers, Bar Harbor, ME, U.S.A.
CHESTERTON,, G.K.. THE INCREDULITY OF FATHER BROWN.. London, Cassell 1926., 1926.
Price: US$166.27 + shipping
Description: 296pp. 8vo. Original black cloth, creased on spine. Inscription on ffe. partially erased. A touch canted, otherwise a very good copy. . First edition.
Seller: Grant's Bookshop, Cheltenham, VIC, Australia
Chesterton, G K. The Incredulity of Father Brown. London Cassell 1926, 1926.
Price: US$225.45 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. Published by Cassell in London, 1926. This is a near fine copy. Without the dust wrapper. The black boards, with their red detailing, are slightly bumped at the corners and at the spine tips. It is sunned at the spine. The text blocks are bright and white throughout. There is very slight foxing to the preliminaries. This copy is free from previous owners ink and is in near fine condition overall. The third-published collection featuring the fictional detective Father Brown.
Seller: John Atkinson Books ABA ILAB PBFA, Harrogate, United Kingdom
CHESTERTON, G.K.. The Incredulity of Father Brown. London: Cassell, 1926, 1926.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with some internal tape mends and some chips and tears. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1610.33 + shipping
Description: [Detective Fiction] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[viii]; 295. Red trimmed black cloth, illustrated dust-jacket priced at 7/6. Some spotting /dustiness to edges, no inscriptions, elegant bookplate to pastedown, jacket chipped at crown, spine sunned, vertical fold to same. Shows well. The third Father Brown collection. With eight tales surrounding the sharp-witted priest detective, the most famous creation of writer and Christian apologist G.K. Chesterton. Cooper & Pike; Detective Fiction p79-82, Eric Quayle; Detective Fiction. Book Collector No.273, p34.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
G.K.Chesterton. The Incredulity of Father Brown. Cassell & Co, London, 1926.
Price: US$1728.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: x-lib; white marks center of spine; top and bottom of spine shelf bumped; minor soiling of cover boards; First published 1926 stated on copyright page
Seller: Booksdoc, Russell, ON, Canada
Chesterton (G.K.). The Incredulity of Father Brown. Cassell, London, 1926.
Price: US$2383.29 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. 8vo. Original black cloth blocked in red. An uncommonly good example of this highly collectable Father Brown first edition: Father Brown 'unravels the tangled skein of crime with entire success, and does it with convincing common-sense logic' (dust jacket). Book VG+; jacket a little chipped at corners with mild fraying to spine ends, but overall a VG+ example.
Seller: Lycanthia Rare Books, Newark, NOTTS, United Kingdom
Chesterton, G.K. The Incredulity of Father Brown.. Cassell and Company, Ltd, London, 1926.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of Chesterton's third-published collection featuring the fictional detective Father Brown. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Uncommon in the original jacket. Often referred to as the "prince of paradox", English poet, philosopher and lay theologian Gilbert Keith Chesterton became well known for his fictional priest-detective Father Brown, and for his reasoned apologetics. The fictional Roman Catholic priest and amateur detective Father Brown came to be featured in 53 short stories published between 1910 and 1936. Chesterton loosely based the character on the Right Reverend Monsignor John O'Connor (1870â"1952), a parish priest in Bradford, who was involved in Chesterton's conversion to Catholicism in 1922.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.